United Nations: Any aggression against Russia “will be met with a decisive response,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his address to the general debate of the UN General Assembly.
He said Western countries have increasingly threatened the use of force against Russia while accusing Moscow of nearly planning to attack NATO and European Union countries, Xinhua news agency reported.
Noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly debunked such provocations, Lavrov stressed that Russia has never had nor does it have such intentions.
On the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Lavrov said, as the Russian president has repeatedly stressed, Russia has been and remains open to negotiations to eliminate the root causes of the conflict from the very beginning.
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